In Wonderland.

It has been a while. Sorry about that. I have been busying around frantically doing all sorts of university applications and portfolios. Christmas went by like a blur, and now I am back at school and I have that horrid feeling, when you return and it feels like you never left. 

So whilst sitting in my new room at my new desk wondering what I could do to make me feel more at home, writing to you seemed the best remedy. 

This post is about a party I threw at home on Saturday. My 18th Birthday party to be precise. Even though its not actually until the 21st, but it seemed easier to celebrate in the holidays. The theme was Alice in a Winter Wonderland, (I though it was nice to give it a Christmasy twist). My parents and I spent about a week preparing all the decorations, we turned one room into an upside down forrest, which looked so cool that its still there, and I bet it will stay at least another two years. So anyway I will stop with the talking now and show you the eye candy...

The upside down forrest.

The helpful duo.

Cooking...and my mum dressed as a gardener (don't ask!).

Dancin.

Hope you like.

Film Finder.

In history of art today I came up with a fantastical idea. It was this, to make a blog entirely dedicated to my love of films. So I have done that. If you too love films click on the link below and check it out...

(Click on the TV)

Hope you like.

And so we carry on.

Fridays are weird aren't they. In almost every way... (well for me anyway). Firstly at lunch it is always fish...never once will you go to a school lunch on friday and have bangers and mash. I know this is for Christian reasons but it still seems rather odd. Also Fridays always seem to last at least double the duration of any other day of the week, this is probably due to the fact that there is so much more to do in order to have a more relaxed weekend, but still again slightly odd. And finally I always have double choir sessions, which aren't so bad but they seem to take up an enormous amount of time. So anyway this post is going to be a bit random with all sorts going on, to finish my weird day with a bang!

Firstly yesterday I couldn't face the thought of doing any prep so instead I was fiddling around on word after my friend told me you could do some crazy things with pictures on it, and this was my result... I like to call it thought tree, because its basically a head with a tree over it, but I thought it looked pretty awesome.

(The tree is a photo I took and home, and the person is me.)

Secondly I thought it was high time that I mentioned to you lovely people about my new obsession...The Mortal Instruments. You may have heard about them, they are a series of books written by Cassandra Clare, the first of which has been turned into a major film; The City of Bones. This stars Lily Collins and Jamie Campbell Bower (who I am unnecessarily in love with). I seriously recommend that you read the books (there are 5) and/ or watch the film. The DVD comes out at the end of January which is rather sad because I would definitely have been asking for that for Christmas! And even more tragically word on the street is that they have postponed filming of the second one due to not enough views of the first!! That was definitely an advertising fault on their behalf, because I only heard about it when it was too late for me to see it in the cinema! Anyway below is the trailer... watch and love.

Following this  thought I might enlighten you on my newest items of clothing, two t-shirts, pretty regular but I live in them. The first is white, completely plain and pretty big (it was my dads) and the second is black with NYC written on it, which is quite funny because I bought it in one of my local charity shops for £3, and this place is literally the furthest thing you can get from New York. It made me laugh, but anyway, it was one of the best purchases ever! Although I think my mum is beginning to worry I am becoming a shopaholic, we went with the intention of buying groceries and I returned with a t-shirt and a DVD (Wimbledon...a classic)...

And lastly an inspirational band for the day...

INDIANS

I saw him live in half term in Norfolk and was blown away, his music is amazing and so different from anything I have ever heard before. After the concert my friends and I went to talk to him and he was so nice. I hope he does really well because he deserves to...

have a listen...

This is my favourite song in the album, Magic Kids.

Hopefully all this chit chat hasn't quite bored you to death...I would be impressed if you had made it to here really...if so GOLD STAR for you! 

So there we go, another Friday down, only a couple more until Christmas! 

Hope you like.

Ghost World.

So I have been finding myself home alone an awful lot lately and so consequently have been watching  a lot of films...as you may have gathered from the film posts...

Tonight I stumbled upon a film called Ghost World. I was expecting something pretty normal and regular but I was seriously impressed. I love how weird it was. It is hard to explain without watching it but you would have to watch it.

It was filmed in 2001. There is something so great about films from this time...its like at the time I was like 5 or 6 and consequently didn't watch this kind of thing at the time..I was probably more about like The Little Mermaid back then haha. Anyway the fashion is awesome. And so is the story...

THE TRAILER:

Hope you like

The Carrie Diaries.

The Carrie Diaries has been around for almost a year now, but we are currently in the middle of series 2. I love it, it is basically a prequel to sex in the city, about Carrie when she was about 17. It is very light hearted and has a pretty gentle story line, but for some reason I cant really get enough of it. 

It is set in the 80's and there is quite a lot of emphasis on the clothes from back then which I find quite interesting...

The trailer...

Watch it on The CW on Fridays.

Hope you like.

POP!

Some photos taken at school on the abandoned life guard seat. It was an opportunity which could not be missed.

Coat- Vintage

Leggings- (dont know...I cut out the label..stupid me!)

Necklace- Random French Market

Trainers- Asics 

Black top- Uniqlo

Hope you like.

Poetic much.

Brick lane- Emily and Ces

White phosphorus, white phosphorus,

mechancial snow,

where are you falling?

I am falling impartially on roads and roofs,

on bamboo thickets, on people.

My name recalls rich seas on rainy nights,

each drop that hits the surface eliciting

luminous response from a million algae.

My name is a whisper of sequins. Ha!

Each of them is a disk of fire,

I am the snow that burns.

                                     I fall

wherever men send me to fall–

but I prefer flesh, so smooth, so dense:

I decorate it in black, and seek

the bone.

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Overheard over S.E. Asia BY Denise Levertov

Yesterday was poetry day at school. This was the poem I picked out of the hat. Turns out its about white phosphorus gas which is like really deadly and burns through skin and bone. It is used in wars sometimes. This is what this poem is about. It is beautiful, but also so dark and horrid at the same time. I have kind of learnt to love it now though as I feel I must have chosen this one for a reason.

Hope you like.